Fendi Takes A Modern View of Roman Style in Fall 2025 Campaign by Steven Meisel

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Fendi Takes A Modern View of Roman Style in Fall 2025 Campaign by Steven Meisel

Fendi Takes A Modern View of Roman Style in Fall 2025 Campaign by Steven Meisel

AOC loves Paris and the south of France. But we’ve been saying for many months now that it’s an Italian moment, and nothing — not even the king of cashmere’s current Italian sweatshop scandal — will dampen AOC’s love affair with la dolce vita.

Fendi’s fall-winter 2025 campaign film begins with a visual dose of sophisticated retro nostalgia, peppered with modern reinvention. In speaking with WWD about the fall-winter 2025 collection, Silvia Venturini Fendi stressed the reality that the fall 2025 collection presents “a contemporary and comprehensive vision of the brand”.

Fendi is also aiming to convey this modern message with ancient roots with the inauguration of a new sprawling flagship on Milan’s Via Montenapoleone.

Anne Is Swept Away

Depending on your age, the soundtrack will completely sweep you away. OMG! Barry White.

If you have lived a privileged life resulting from family heritage — or are a working girl who made good and led a privileged life based on your smarts — and you regularly kissed the ground landing in Italia, you will be swooning.

Personally, Anne is destroyed with this campaign video.

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Chanel Coco Beach 2024 Campaign Drifts in Calm Waters As Chanel Changes Course

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Chanel Coco Beach 2024 Campaign Drifts in Calm Waters As Chanel Changes Course

Luxury brand Chanel [IG] delivers a fresh and modern summer Coco Beach 2024 campaign starring Danish model Olivia Vinten lensed by Cass Bird [IG].

At Chanel, Let the Good Times Roll

Chanel is riding high off a 16 percent revenue increase in annual sales over 2023. Price increases alone drove up sales by around 9 percent, according to BoF.

Chanel CFO Philippe Blondiaux praised Virginie Viard’s contributions to Chanel’s major growth in his BoF interview. Days later, the artistic director was escorted out the door.

With Viard seeming out-of-touch with the world at large at times, and given Coco Chanel’s own delicate political history in Europe, AOC is on the record saying we’re watching the brand like a hawk. We continue to write today from that updated perspective.

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